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TREASURY  DEPARTMENT,  C.  S.  A- 

Richmond,  November  15.  1864, 

The  following  Regulations  are  to  be  observed  in  making  appli- 
cation for  renewal,  or  duplicates  of  lost  Certificates  of  Stock.  Drafts 
and  Certificates  of  Deposite  for  stock  or  bonds  r 

All  applications  made  to  the  Treasury  for  renewal  of  Certifi- 
cates of  Stock,  Drafts  and  Certificates  of  Depoaite  for  stock  or 
bonds,  lost  or  destroyed,  must  he  accompanied  by  the  following- 
documents : 

1.  A  statement  on  oath  or  affirmation  by  rtie  applicant,  .sjjowing- 
the  time,  place,  and  all  other  cir«un>stunees  attending  the  loss  or 
destruction  of  the  certificate,  with  its  number,  date,  amount,  the- 
cate  of  interest  it  bears,  the  time  t<>  wUich  iutorest,  if  any,  hjiw 
been  paid,  in  whose  favor  it  was  issued,  when  made  payable,  toge- 
ther with  every  Other  particular  relating  to  it,  within  the  know- 
tedge  of  the  applicant. 

2.  An  instrument  ir.  writing,  to  be  signed  by  the  applioaiit,  with 
two  sureties,  reciting  the  particul»\^rs  herein  before  specified,  by 
which  such  applicant  and  his  sureties  shall  jointly  and  >everally 
H^ree  to  pay  to  any  person  who  may  establish  a  valid  claim  to  tha 
certificate  so  alleged  to  have  been  lost  or  destroyed,  the  full  value 
thereof,  on  dema"tad,  with  interest  until  paid,  and  also  t<>  pay  tho 
Confederate  States  any  sum  which  shall  appear  to  have  been  erro- 
neously paid  to  such  claimant,  pursuant  to  the  said  application, 
with  interest  until  paid.  Such  instrument  is  to  be  executed  in  the 
presence  of  a  Judge  or  District  Attorney  of  the  Confederate  States, 
or  a  Judge  of  a  Court  of  Record  of  any  State,  by  whom  the  suffi- 
oiency  of  the  sureties,  in  double  the  amount  claimed,  must  bo 
certified. 

3.  A  copy  of  a  public  advertisen»ei\t  of  the  loss  or  destruction 
of  a  certificate  made  bj  the  party  in  a  newspaper  published  at  or 
near  the  place  of  such  loss  or  destruction,  ac«orapanied  by  the 
affidavit  of  the  printer  or  publisher  of  the  same,  that  the  said 
advertisement  had  been  inserted  in  the  said  paper  for  six  consecu- 
tive v^reeks.  '  ' 

G.  A.  TRENHOLM. 
Secretai^  of  tlie  Trectsury. 


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